Doug Mouton will move from north shore bureau chief to sports director for WWL-TV, the station announced Wednesday (May 16). Jim Henderson retired as the station’s sports director in January.

Mouton has been doing some fill-in sports anchoring for the past few months, said Bill Siegel, news director.

“His leadership has just been phenomenal, and he’s told some great stories,” Siegel said.

A New Orleans native who attended Brother Martin High School and the University of New Orleans, Mouton worked for WDSU-TV and WGNO-TV in New Orleans – as well as making career stops in South Dakota, Florida and Lake Charles, La. -- before joining WWL in 2006.

The station also announced that former New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper will work as a football analyst for the station.

Sharper, who played for the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings, was a mainstay of the Saints’ 2009 Super Bowl championship team.

The installment, subtitled “The Great Cafeteria Takeover,” documents the Rethinkers efforts at reforming food service in New Orleans public schools.

One of the featured students, Victoria Carter of the New Orleans Charter Math and Science High School, said that her participation in the effort has broadened her personal menu of food likes and dislikes.

“This experience made me love more things than I thought it would,” she said. “I did not know that I like couscous. I didn't know what couscous was. And then I ate it and I thought, ‘Oh my God, whoever invented couscous is really amazing right now.”

Their success at expanded choices and improving quality in school cafeterias made the Rethinkers a natural for inclusion in the HBO series. Other kid-focused installments will come later in the year.

“Something that people really don't realize is kids understand what the right choice is,” said Carter, whose goal is to become a doctor. “We know what's wrong. We know what’s right. We know that if we eat a banana instead of a bag of chips it would be way healthier for us. But the fact of the matter is every day we go to school, adults are giving us these chips. We understand this. It's not a matter of learning it. It's a matter of actually having it done and implemented into our lives, because we follow in the footsteps of our parents and our teachers.

“We started with the idea of making food better. We’re in New Orleans. We’re known for food and a rich culture, but in the schools you wouldn't even know we were from New Orleans. We just started off with the idea that food should be not only healthy but tasty.

“And you should be able to know that food is a part of who you are. It's what makes us us. There's no reason why it shouldn't be great and healthy and delicious. That's where that came from.”

Wendell Pierce and Michael K. Williams acted as masters of ceremony for the event.

And Williams, who played Omar Little on “The Wire,” was a popular guy among attendees, Brook reports:

During a smoke break outside the club, a line of women came up one after another to have their picture snapped with the actor, who wore an impeccably tailored suit and bowtie. They invariably referred to him as “Omar.” Among the ladies begging to be photographed with Williams was Laura Hurt, who drove 60 miles from the Mississippi Gulf Coast where she runs a coffee shop. “I don’t do the whole celebrity thing,” she said, “but for him …” She trailed off. Brett Dupre had also been lured by the opportunity to see Omar in the flesh. “He’s a very queer character asserting a particular kind of agency in a neighborhood where people don’t have a lot of agency,” Dupre explained, before disclosing that he had just written his master’s thesis in English at the University of New Orleans on The Wire.